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Posted by Richard Stevenson <rstevenson@valculus.com> Today I received several personal emails from SD mail subscribers around the world who all (my summary) said, ""we have given up subscribing to this forum because many people consider the SD mailing list to be a place where only politic...

Posted by Richard Stevenson <rstevenson@valculus.com> Jack Homer writes: > I think it is fine that Richard speaks his mind forthrightfully, but > I do think that maybe he is generalizing from his own experience, > rather than drawing conclusions from broader evidence of how we as a field are actuall...

Posted by Richard Stevenson <rstevenson@valculus.com> Elaine Weaver wrote: > George Richardson has suggested starting with a simple and > purposefully wrong model, feigning ignorance Columbo-style (1970's > American TV reference). The sheer wrongness of the model engages > everyone to correct it. Th...

Posted by Richard Stevenson <rstevenson@valculus.com> >On 20 Apr 2007, at 10:33, SDMAIL Jay W. Forrester wrote: > Can someone supply some examples of where the way of computing age in >a stock will alter the direction of policy recommendations to improve >the behavior of a system? I think so. In the...

Posted by Richard Stevenson <rstevenson@valculus.com> Jean-Jacques Laublé asks ""why should I bother?"" and then invites me to join the business SIG. I thank him for that. But I am not at all sure (not least because of all the recent correspondence on this forum) that the SIG is ...

Posted by Richard Stevenson <rstevenson@valculus.com> I absolutely recognise the dynamics that Kim Warren describes. Francisco Perez also makes some very interesting suggestions that reflect my own thoughts. Perhaps this opens up a more practical discussion - the potential to develop an internationa...

Posted by Richard Stevenson <rstevenson@valculus.com> Jim Hines writes, ""Why not have a ""professional conference"" that's separate from the existing conference?"" What is the point of being separate? Why should academics feel they are immune from practitione...

Posted by Richard Stevenson <rstevenson@valculus.com> John Sterman writes ""I cannot accept the idea that modelers, consultants or advisors are responsible only for helping their client make better decisions regardless of the morality of those decisions or the purpose for which their advic...

Posted by Richard Stevenson <rstevenson@valculus.com> Bill Braun writes ""I suspect, from both observation and experience, that creating value for senior managers by senior managers frequently trumps other shareholders. "" It is not our role, as (hopefully independent) advisors, ...

Posted by Richard Stevenson <rstevenson@valculus.com> John Gunkler says, ""Please don't try to tell me that business decision making is not about politics."" Actually I didn't say that it wasn't. I said that business and politics are not the same. I too have been involved in some...

Posted by Richard Stevenson <rstevenson@valculus.com> Bob Eberlein says that ""good system dynamics is simply good science and there is very little about business practice that embraces good science."" Also, "" it is in boldness and not meekly fitting ourselves in with ...

Posted by Richard Stevenson <rstevenson@valculus.com> Jay Forrester comments that “system dynamics is now on a plateau.” So, on a plateau after 50 years, is this not an ideal juncture SD to consider its future options seriously? Much of the recent discussion about the future of SD in these pages has...